NOCTUA
La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno
History of Philosophy from the Ancient to the Modern Age
Autore / Author: Simone Fellina
Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università degli Studi di Parma
Titolo / Title: Le fonti platoniche di Federico Pendasio: note sulla diffusione nel ’500 degli Scholia al Fedro di Ermia Alessandrino e dei Commenti al Fedone e al Filebo di Olimpiodoro e Damascio
Abstract: Federico Pendasio was a highly esteemed professor at the universities of Padua (1564–1571) and Bologna (1571–1603). His contemporaries as well as modern scholars have recognized his commitment both to Aristotle and Plato. The aim of this paper is to provide a contribution to the study of the dissemination of Platonism in sixteenth-century university teaching by examining Pendasio’s Platonic sources, in particular Olympiodorus’s and Damascius’s commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo, Damascius’s commentary on the Philebus and Hermias Alexandrinus’s Scholia on the Phaedrus. These works are used in two of Pendasio’s most representative works: his De animae immortalitate (1570) and Lectiones dictatae in librum De anima (1577). In order to assess Pendasio’s interests in Platonism, a general survey of most of his university lectures and quaestiones will also be provided.
Keywords: Federico Pendasio; Renaissance Platonism; university teaching; sixteenth-century philosophy; Olympiodorus; Damascius; Hermias of Alexandria.
English title: The Platonic Sources of Federico Pendasio: Notes on the Sixteenth-Century Dissemination of the Scholia on the Phaedrus by Hermias of Alexandria and of the Commentaries on the Phaedo and the Philebus of Olympiodorus and Damascius
DOI: 10.14640/NoctuaIX7
Anno / Volume: IX
Fascicolo / Issue: 2
Pagine / Pages: 188-221
Pubblicazione / Publication date: 18/07/2022
Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaIX7
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